The research project “Music perception and reading skills in a foreign language learning” has met in the university residence “Carmen de la Victoria”, in the Andalusian province of Granada (Spain). This meeting had two main goals:

• Discussing the selection of the different diagnostic tests (pre and post-tests) for the experimental and control groups.

The research project “Music perception and reading skills in foreign language learning” has attended to different cycles, series and training seminars for Spanish teachers as foreign language.

These seminars aimed at opening discussions forums about methodologies and the most recent researches related to Spanish as foreign language teaching, emphasizing the importance of the Symphony project for its contribution to this field with the use of music.

The following 23^rd and 24^th of March, the University of Uppsala, in Sweden, will conduct the conference “la poesía es una arma cargada de futuro” for Spanish teachers.

This conference will last two days and will be attended by Mª Carmen Fonseca Mora, principal researcher of the interuniversity project “Music perception and reading skills in foreign language learning”. 

BBC NEWS, 6 november 2009

German researchers say babies begin to pick up the nuances of their parents' accents while still in the womb. The researchers studied the cries of 60 healthy babies born to families speaking French and German. The French newborns cried with a rising "accent" while the German babies' cries had a falling inflection. Writing in the journal Current Biology, they say the babies are probably trying to form a bond with their mothers by imitating them.